7-40 Challenge | 6-22-2026 I cut almost half of my first novel in editing. Scenes I loved. Lines I was proud of. Whole subplots I'd spent weeks building. Every cut made the book better. This round, I did the same thing to my year. I started 2026 with a list of everything I wanted to … Continue reading Editing Life
Author: David Willis
Father’s Day
7-40 Challenge | Round 4, Day 36 Today is Father's Day, and Round 4 of the challenge ends today. I'm spending it with my family, which is exactly where it should be spent. The work will be there tomorrow. The planning for Round 5 starts soon, and I'm genuinely looking forward to it — there's … Continue reading Father’s Day
Ten Thousand
7-40 Challenge | Round 4, Day 35 BiblePictures365 hit 10,000 followers on Instagram today. On January 1, I had zero. No audience. No following. No track record. Just an idea — one image per chapter, every day for a year reading through the whole Bible— and enough stubbornness to start posting before anyone was watching. … Continue reading Ten Thousand
Less Famous, More Trusted
7-40 Challenge | Round 4, Day 34 Seth Godin dropped nineteen points about marketing in the age of AI. Three of them stopped me cold. "Stop trying to be famous. The goal is not to get more famous. The goal is to get less famous and more trusted." I've spent most of this year building … Continue reading Less Famous, More Trusted
Intent
7-40 Challenge | Round 4, Day 33 Before you say anything — to your spouse, your team, your AI — there's a question worth answering first: why are you opening your mouth? Are you trying to understand something? Are you trying to be understood? Are you trying to win? Are you trying to find the … Continue reading Intent
